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Yep today was fill up day for the Civic and the Accord. Not as good as I would have liked. :( Wind has been killing me. Some tail wind. Mostly head winds and some cross winds. Winds have been a steady 15 to 20 mph. Its been a nightmare. Temps have been 50's 60's in the morning and 70's 80's in the afternoon. Both cars tank where full fill ups. topped off to Mr. Xcels standards. ;) Tire psi is at max side wall on both cars. The Accord is running fresh M1 0w-20. The Civic is on fresh 5w-20 M1.

Accord 25% city, 75% Hwy. 588 miles, 15.8 gal. 37.2 mpg. 32 lmpg
Civic 20% city, 80% hwy. 606 miles, 13.9 gal. 43.6 mpg. 38.9 lmpg

High lites of these tanks.
I suffered a hypermiling injury. >>> Nothing Soma and whiskey cant fix. :D
The winds have been awful. They have been blowing like this for two months or better. When its a 104F here there wont be a puff to be found. So there is hope.
Scangauge is the best automotive tool Ive ever bought. Period! Its results where not spot on,,, but very close. I used the SG solid for a tank in the Civic. It nest's well there as my mother would say. :p
OD / Trip A where spot on at 606 miles, SG 608miles.
Hand calc's 43.6 mpg. SG showed 45.5 mpg for the tank.
More than close enough to be used as a wonderful tool!

So there it is. Theres better to come. OOO and yes there was some redline action in there on both cars. man cant live on Fas alone. :D

psy

very nice tanks, anything above 40 for me and I stop being all sissy about it

Psy;

Everything seems to look okey from where I am sitting. Fe looks just fine. :)

I'm with you psyshack, the scangauge is very close to being dead on when you reset the tank refill each time. The FEH owner's can forget about getting a constant tank fill and doing it manually. This is only one feature of the scangauge that makes it worth $130 to me. Most of the time now, I know where to accelerate at an RPM etc. and I keep the Tank Average screen on to control FE. Those increases and decreases shown on the other gauges drive you wild. Lets face it, the tank average is what counts at the pump when you pay. Sure I bounce around the scangauge to see what's happening, but I find the tank average a nice way to stay ahead of the game.

GaryG

its a shame you can't show INSTANT and average at the same time... one or the other ;(

although what i do now is i check my average when i'm at a stop light. Poop... I know that number is going to drop by 3-4 points when I'm on the move again.

I'm with you psyshack, the scangauge is very close to being dead on when you reset the tank refill each time. The FEH owner's can forget about getting a constant tank fill and doing it manually. This is only one feature of the scangauge that makes it worth $130 to me. Most of the time now, I know where to accelerate at an RPM etc. and I keep the Tank Average screen on to control FE. Those increases and decreases shown on the other gauges drive you wild. Lets face it, the tank average is what counts at the pump when you pay. Sure I bounce around the scangauge to see what's happening, but I find the tank average a nice way to stay ahead of the game.

GaryG
GaryG;
You know I guess when you come right down to it, that is the "Bottom-Line" when it is all over for that Tank -Of-Fuel. How well did we do? :cool: